Opinions: Best capture software?

[Grizzly]

I have WinXP, Hau. WinTV, 100GB empty disk space.

I want to capture video from old VHS camcorder.

Whats the best capture software for this?

Thanks in advance.

[akbor75]

i had some problems using some well known software.
now i use uiVCR. it's simple but good.

[spidey]

If you have 100 gig of available scratch space, and a Hauppage card, you can't beat Huffyuv and Virtual Dub to capture. See under CAPTURE (to the left) as to how to capture with it (top guide)

[Grizzly]

Thanks for the ideas.

I gather this solution is an "on-the-fly" compression solution.

Re: the Huffy solution, I have been avoiding "on-the-fly" compression believing that my processor is not fast enough to do this wthout losing frames. Is this a real problem? I havent tried with Huffy.

[snowmoon]

Even with plenty of space huffyuv is most often HD constrained because if it's sustained bandwidth required.

[BJ_M]

i prefer AVI_IO but i use mjpeg or no compresion (i have hardware that supports either and capture in SDI or component) .. but anyway AVI_IO works great

[jdfrey1]

I've had really good luck with WinVCRII from my Hau. WinTV card with capturing stuff off the TV tuner. With my 900 MHz Athlon I am able to compress on the fly to a pretty good SVCD size MPEG-2. If you don't want MPEG-2 compression try Scenalyzer. I just started playing with it and it seems very functional!

[Valnar]

The only WDM capture program that keeps A/V in sync on long captures is VirtualVCR.
http://www.digtv.ws IuVCR doesn't work right in that respect.

Have fun,
Robert